The TAP canceled 70 flights on Saturday, the day the Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SPAC) called a strike that will last 24 hours.
This was disclosed in a statement of TAP, stating that the company was able to run “80% of its operation.”
The canceled flights are all of high school, bound for European and domestic airports. The outputs of Lisbon were the most affected, since, at Porto airport, the “stronger” presence of PGA (PGA) allowed lessen the effect of the strike, explained André Soares.
Between 17-18 of 42 000 thousand passengers with flight scheduled for this Saturday will be shipped throughout the day and the remainder will travel on other dates forward André Soares.
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According to the document, the company made a further 18 long-haul pilots with the company, “which added to the set as minimum services, thus having the company made all flights to long-haul flights, including Brazil, Colombia, Panama and the United States. “
The president of the Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SPAC), Jaime Prieto said that the PUBLIC the strike had “a massive and very significant adhesion”, despite not having the technical means to account for the impact in percentage terms.
the flights were short stroke affected the most, which is due to Prieto to “personal decisions” pilots. “Normally, long-haul pilots have greater institutional connection to the company and pilots are accumulating positions close to the administration,” said the union leader.
However, the strike announced by pilots do not have the aim of causing “operational impact”, but serves as a “wake-up call” against “bad labor and operational management” of TAP. One of the main issues to worry SPAC is the loss of skilled professionals. Jaime Prieto says that in the last two years, the company lost 37 pilots, “thousands of hours”, something that “never happened in the history of TAP.”
There is also forecast six flights that should leave late on Sunday morning.
In addition to flights to Faro and Funchal who have been affected, according to the website TAP were also canceled flights to Dusseldorf, Oslo , Stockholm, Milan, Helsinki, Warsaw, Hanover, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Rome.
In the information panels did not show up at airports canceled flights. The reason, André Soares, is that these flights have been “empty” after its passengers were rerouted to other dates by TAP. “The flights were empty and were therefore removed from the information system,” said the aide to the PUBLIC.
According to TAP, the strike affects more than 27 000 passengers, which changed the date of their trips or canceled flights that were booked.
A TAP flight with scheduled departure and destination of Caracas to Lisbon was also canceled this Saturday, but for technical reasons. with Lusa
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